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Preface | xi | |
Acknowledgements | xv | |
Chapter 1 | Introduction | 1 |
The need for genetics information | 1 | |
Mendelism and genetics | 2 | |
Nomenclature | 3 | |
Origin and species hybridity | 4 | |
Historical appendices | 9 | |
A | Discredited beliefs | 9 |
B | Timeline of cat breeds | 10 |
Chapter 2 | Reproduction and development | 13 |
Practical aspects of reproduction | 13 | |
Germ cell lineage | 15 | |
Heredity versus environment in the shaping of the individual | 16 | |
The chromosomes | 17 | |
Sex chromosomes and sex determination | 19 | |
Sex development | 21 | |
Technical appendices | 23 | |
A | Basic data on reproduction and the life cycle of the domestic cat | 23 |
B | Haploid number of chromosomes for selected cat species | 23 |
Chapter 3 | Principles of heredity | 24 |
Introduction | 24 | |
Genes and alleles | 25 | |
Simple inheritance | 26 | |
Checkerboard diagrams | 30 | |
Dominant and recessive mutations | 35 | |
Detection of the homozygous dominant | 35 | |
Incomplete dominance | 36 | |
Multiple allelism | 37 | |
Masking of genes | 40 | |
Mimic genes | 42 | |
The multiple recessive | 44 | |
Expressivity and impenetrance | 45 | |
Genetic fingerprinting | 46 | |
Technical appendix | 48 | |
A note on Mendel's distribution and statistics | 48 | |
Chapter 4 | Impacts of heredity | 49 |
Manifold effects of genes | 49 | |
Linkage | 49 | |
Sex-linked heredity | 51 | |
Sex-limited expression | 53 | |
Continuous variation | 54 | |
Threshold characters | 59 | |
Anomalies | 60 | |
Chapter 5 | Breeding systems | 63 |
Overview | 63 | |
Random mating | 64 | |
Random breeding versus random bred | 64 | |
Breeding systems | 65 | |
Limits to selection | 85 | |
Technical appendices | 87 | |
A | Working ratios of declines in heterozygosis | 88 |
B | Calculating the decline in heterozygosity | 88 |
Chapter 6 | Breeding practices | 89 |
The meaning of lines | 89 | |
Gene pools | 90 | |
Elimination of anomalies | 92 | |
Persistence of anomalies | 94 | |
Technical appendices | 97 | |
A | Case study - head conformation and bite | 97 |
B | Record keeping | 99 |
Chapter 7 | Inbreeding | 107 |
In general | 107 | |
Inbreeding and breeds | 111 | |
Inbreeding depression and hybrid vigor | 114 | |
Inbreeding and the appearance of anomalies | 116 | |
Maximum avoidance of inbreeding | 116 | |
Synopsis | 119 | |
Technical appendices | 120 | |
A | Calculating inbreeding from pedigrees | 120 |
B | Complex inbreeding | 121 |
C | Law of descent | 123 |
D | Pedigrees | 126 |
Chapter 8 | Coat inheritance | 127 |
Coat composition | 127 | |
Rex hair | 128 | |
Long hair | 130 | |
Genes and rexing | 130 | |
Wire hair | 133 | |
Chapter 9 | Color inheritance | 134 |
Introductory note | 134 | |
A standard of comparison | 134 | |
Eye color | 135 | |
Tabby and non-agouti | 135 | |
Brown alleles - B, B, b[superscript [lambda]] | 138 | |
Albino alleles | 139 | |
Dilutions | 140 | |
Inhibitor of melanin - I- | 142 | |
Dominant black | 142 | |
Orange | 143 | |
White and white spotted cats | 146 | |
Rufism | 151 | |
Technical appendix | 152 | |
Black-yellow mosaics | 152 | |
Chapter 10 | Genetics of color variation and breeds | 155 |
Introduction | 155 | |
Conformation and type | 156 | |
Color variations | 157 | |
Breeds | 167 | |
Technical appendices | 182 | |
A | Color likelihood from matings involving chocolate and dilute alleles | 182 |
B | List of color and coat mutant genes and symbols | 183 |
C | Blood types | 183 |
D | Breeds and outcrosses | 183 |
Chapter 11 | Genetic anomalies | 185 |
Classification | 185 | |
Specific anomalies | 186 | |
Technical appendix | 207 | |
List of genetic anomalies and symbols | 207 | |
Historical appendix | 207 | |
The elimination of craniofacial defects in the Burmese cat - a case study of responsible breeding | 207 | |
Glossary | 209 | |
Bibliography | 229 | |
Index | 247 |
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